It’s a rainy Tuesday Afternoon
A rainy Tuesday afternoon, in a nice, tidy house that I’ve spent the morning cleaning is just about the perfect time to write, by my...
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About the Author:
TS Davis
Intermagical positively fell out of the author in a few short months,
followed by the next two books in the trilogy, under some pretty unusual circumstances.
It seems as though she channeled this message as a gift from the fae,
to allow her beloved cousin to live on in fiction, to help us reclaim our lost mythos, and as a reminder to use our magic for good, in these tumultuous times.
The author, who grew up with the uncomfortable initials ‘TS’ and now lives much more happily as Fiona, moved to Oregon after college to get to know her birth family. At that point, fiction and reality diverge, but much of this work of fiction was inspired by the real people and experiences of the author’s magical life with her husband, young son, bonus children, polyamorous loves, and an ever-expanding neurodivergent community in the mystically beautiful Pacific Northwest.
Fiona never set out to be a writer, but she did live with one for most of her twenties, a highly intelligent and deeply magical bridge troll who inadvertently gifted her with the knack of turning expansive thought into storytelling. She started her career in the field of mental health to satisfy her desire to understand why people are the way they are and provided care to adults with severe mental illness for several years before burning out and transitioning to the field of technology.
After resigning from a highly anticipated, but ultimately ill-fated start-up for whom she had been the acting CTO, she decided to take an easy administrator role for a year, to give herself a much-needed break. During that time, she decided to get to know her cousin better by reading her favorite fantasy series, and without the intensive technological problem-solving to take up her intellectual bandwidth, she found herself thinking, 'I could do this.' With the guidance of Deborah Chester's Fantasy Fiction Formula, this novel flowed out of her like water from an underground spring, with a second installment following shortly after the first - a story about their family's particular magic, as a gift for her cousin.
Intermagical is a genre-breaking exploration of mysticism and the magical reality of our world, and as it came into being, the story felt like it was coming from some source of inspiration outside the author's own mind, and it soon became obvious that this message was for the world, and not just for her family. As the author battled her own neurodivergence, powering through
the lengthy process of editing, recording the audiobook and self-publishing Intermagical, she says that it felt like the fae gave her her attention back for this and only this. No one knew why she was pressing so doggedly toward the tight timing of her deadline, not even the author herself, but sometimes everything lines up like it's supposed to, just like magic.
26 days before the scheduled release of Intermagical, the author's beloved cousin, inspiration for the character of Faeryn and for the series itself, died unexpectedly from complications of her congenital heart defect. Hours before she passed, she held the author's hand and told her how meaningful it was to get to live on in fiction, in the hearts and minds of those who read her story. From this experience, the author believes that she might have channeled this series from the fae themselves, for her fae-identified cousin, to give her the gift of life after death.
After Faeryn's passing, the author chose to live mindfully, rather than focusing on marketing the novel, and had a beautiful summer full of exploration and community. The evidence began to mount, and she eventually concluded that her cousin's ghost had stuck around and was walking with her through her summer of adventures. Faeryn's ghost moved onward on All Hallows Eve, and one month later, the third book of the trilogy emerged, the first draft of which was completed, from outline to pen-down, between November 2023 and January 2024. The third and final installment includes Faeryn's passing, and her life after death, concluding with her decision to move on, just like she did here.
The trilogy is now complete, and the author is working on editing Book 2, which features lessons about the practical use of intuitive ritual magic, taught by Faeryn and Evita, as well as a path to deconstruct from Evangelical Christianity, one of the major evils of our modern world.
Faeryn may be gone, but her inspiration and her memory lives on in the universe of the New World Fae, which would never have existed without her.
"Like so many of us, I cut my teeth on Harry Potter...
...and spent much of my young life steeped in that world of magic.
But those of us who grew up dreaming of being wizards are older now, and we have opened our eyes to the cracks beneath the surface of that imaginary world.
We're ready for a new story, and a new, real magic of our own, not one hidden from us on the other side of the veil.
A magic that is inclusive and accepting of all seekers, and pointed in opposition to the real and poignant forces of evil in our world. "
TS DAVIS,
Author, Intermagical
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